Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 871, John Ervin, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
New Jersey
Orvin, John
L. 871
Carded
CONTENTS

9874
New Jersey
John Erven x of Ambey in the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Comp y command by Captain Pyatt of the Reg t command by Col Higer in the Militia line for 9 months N.J.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of June 1833 and del d E.G.M. Chesney of Righteous N.J. Pension
Arrears to the 4th of Mar '33 $60 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sep '33 15
x Erven $75.00
Act Oct. 9, 1906
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Francion Clerk Book C. Vol. 3 d Page 110

Ordered to Page 19. Sep 1837.

State of New Jersey } Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Middlesex County ss. Act of Congress passed the 7. day of June 1832
On this thirty first day of July Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Two personally appeared in open court held as a special term of the court of common pleas in and for the said county of Middlesex at the City of New Brunswick now sitting being a Court of Record, John Erwin a resident of the Township of South Amboy in the said county of Middlesex, aged Seventy three years the 14. day of July 1832, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7. day of June 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States as a private in the Militia of the state of New Jersey under the following named Officers as herein stated to the best of his recollection in the year 1776  His first tour he was called out in the said service was to Paulers-hook, and Bergen-point in the year 1776 in the company commanded by Captain John Pyatt, under Colonel Jacob Hyre he thinks and after out that tour was relieved by another part of the Militia, in January 1777 while the Militia lay at the village of Cranberry he was called out in Captain David Chambers company while the British army lay at New Brunswick under Colonels Jacob Hyre, and John Nielson, being occasionally relieved until the Month of May or the early part of June, and was out during part of that time on various scouting parties, was out under the said Captain in the party commanded by Colonel John Nielson at the taking of a party of armed Tories, or Refugees while laying at a place commonly called Bennets Island commanded by a Major Stockton who was taken prisoner and fifty nine of his men, at which attack William Soven was killed belonging to the same company, and after that tour ended, which was about the first of June the same year being relieved about on half of the time by other parts of the Militia he was ordered out in Captain Peter Penines company under Colonel Jacob Hyre to Elizabeth Town to guard the inhabitants against the excursions of the enemy from Staten Island, the next tour he thinks was to the same place and for the same purposes, and under the same officers, perhaps both those tours lasted between one and two months, the next tour of the same year, he was called out in Captain William Artipeds company under Colonel Robert Nixon
NO 4116

While the British lay in Philadelphia and marched to Hattenfeld boersen ferry, and timber-creek at which latter place and under the command of the Marquis General Lafayette was an engagement with the enemy when he thinks two of our men were killed, and in the year 1770 was called out under captain Peter Pinine and Colonel Robert Nixon, and marched to Trenton, Springfield Mount-holley, and other places when the British crossed over the Delaware into New Jersey, and had to retreat before them until they came to Allen-town, where his officers permitted him to return home, and to remove his own and his neighbours property out of the way of the enemy, the next time he was called out under the same officers he thinks and marched to Springfield in East Jersey where Lewis Egbert was killed by the enemy, but how long this time lasted he cannot exactly tell, but it was in the year 1780, and in the same year he was called out again in captain Geoffrey Gubertas company to South River, and South Amboy to guard the shores from the excursions, and depredations of the enemy and which were very numerous, and this was the last time he was in the service, but generally he believes he was out in the service from the first time he entered it until in the year 1780 with the exception of the one when the British marched from New Brunswick to Somerset Court-house, at which time he had the small-pox, and this deponent further declares that he verily believes he was out in the service as a militia man in the service of the United States at different times for as long a term as nine months or more, but cannot exactly determine and this deponent further declares that he has no documentary evidence relating to his services, and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, and he also declares that all the officers under whom he served are now dead as far as he knows except Colonel Nielson.
Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 31. day of July 1832.
Robert McHenry
John Grinn

We Symmes C. Henry Pastor of the first Presbyterian Church in the village of Chambers, in the County of Middlesex, and David Chambers of the Township of South Brunswick in said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Ervin who has subscribed and sworn to the above or foregoing declaration, and believe him to be seventy three years of age that he is reputed, and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and they concur in that opinion
Sworn to, and subscribed in open court this 31. day of July 1832
Robert W. Henry
Symmes C. Henry
David Chambers
Interrogatories put by the Court to the foregoing applicants,
1. Where and in what year were you born.
Answer Chambers the country July the 4th 1759 I have seen it in a book of my father's but do not know where it is now
2. Have you any record of your age and where is it.
Answer I have seen it in a book of my father's but do not know where it is now
3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live Answer in the Township of South Amboy in the County of Middlesex and have lived there ever since.
4. How were you called into service, Answer, always as a volunteer,
5. State the names of the regular Officers who were with the troops when you served, such Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service
Answer, I do not know that I was ever under any regular officers of the standing army, excepting a short time under General Lafayette, and the remainder of the time under the Col. and Capt. before named in my declaration and as to the circumstances generally of my service see above relation in my declaration
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service,
Answer, I never received any regular discharge when the time expired for which I was called out I was verbally discharged from such service
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution

Anson, Major Andrew W. Dorcee (Cor. David Chambers Robert McElhiney, Abram Gillock and John Rue of the Revolution George Morris John Day Esq. Lewis Drey & Capt. Timothy Horner and Capt. Benjamin M. Clarke
sworn to, and subscribed in Open Court this 31. day of July 1832
Robert McElhiney
John Ervin
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after passing the above interro- gation prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicants was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifying that it appears to them the James C. Henry who has signed preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in the said village of Cranbury in the County of Middlesex and that David Chambers who has also signed his name to the same is a resident in the said County and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit
The foregoing affidavits were all sworn to and subscribed in Open Court this 31. day of July 1832 Before the subscribing Judges namely
Robert McElhiney
J. B. Bleecker
Thos. Hance
J. F. J. Wanasdalen Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Ervin for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 31. day of July 1832
J. F. J. Wanasdalen Clerk

John Erven
South Ambo
Cal e Pratt, N.Y.
Col H. G. 20
4116
Service as Carter or Teamster in all seasons
Service as Carter or Teamster in all seasons
9 mo. pri.
30 $
7

Supplementary Declaration.
State of N. Jersey } Be it known that on the twentieth day of May Middlesex County ss. } A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Three before
me Robert Nelhans one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas in and for said County personally appeared John Brum an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832 who being duly sworn according to Law did depose and say that after the best of his memory and upon mature reflection, and deliberation he will add the following information and circumstances to his original declaration to which this is attached, for the information of the war department agreeably to the requirements of the same, that is to say namely, that he served in the years therein mentioned and under those Officers and places that he has therein stated to the very best of his recollection, Sir,
  That he served as a private in the Militia of New Jersey on his first tour in the year 1776. at Pauls-Booth & Bovan-point for the Term of one month - - -  Mos. Weeks 1 " 00    on the second tour at Cranberry in 1777 - - -  2 " 2    on the third tour same year at Elizabeth Town -  1 " 00    on the fourth tour same year and place on being relieved  1 " 00    on the fifth tour same year at Haddonfield and other places  1 " 00    on the sixth tour the winter in 1778 at Trenton and Do - -  1 " 00    on the seventh tour in the year 1780 at Springfield. &c.  1 " 00    on the eighth tour same year at South River &c.  0 " 2    Total in months  9 " 00  
and this deponent further states that in addition to the abovesaid tours he was in the service as above stated and which he now recollects since he made his original declaration he remembers well of having been pressed into the continental or regular service by one quarter-master Paxton to cart a quantity of Pork and Baggage to General Washingtons army at valley forge out in that service in the year 1777. or 1778 - - - 0 " 2  and that while General Washingtons army lay at Morris-Town he was again pressed by Lord Sterling's aid to carry a hogshead of Rum to that place out - - - 0 " 3  in the whole first and last 10 " 1

The foregoing Declaration and Statement accompanied with the affidavits thereto attached is all that this declarant or applicant can do in support of his claim for a pension as aforesaid with any degree of precision or certainly according to the best of his power, and belief
Sworn to, and subscribed
before me the day and
year aforesaid
Robert McHenry Justice of the peace
John Ervin

State of New Jersey ( ) Middlesex County ) I Nicholas Mooracm Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex do certify that Robert M c Cherny and John Smith before whom the foregoing & several depositions were made were at the time & sitting of the same in and for said County duly sworn & affirmed and that the signatures Robert M c Cherny & John Smith are the proper signatures of them the said Justices
In Testimony whereof I have here under set my hand and seal of office This 19 th day of June AD 1833
N Mooracm Clerk

Minton Bank Pension Office Sep 15 1837
Sir
I enclose you the voucher of John Erwin requiring your special direction for payment
I am very respectfully Your Obedient Servt M. P. Stuart Jr P. Dickinson Pres
Dr. Edwards Esq

New War
INVALID.
File No.
821
John Brown, Prio. N. J. dist.
Act
June 7, 1882
Index:—Vol.
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[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mar. 11. 1897- History to Mr. Harry K. Quigley Marion, Ohio. (see Ind. 41-5-20)

State of N. Jersey } Be it known that on the 20. day of May 1833 Middlesex county ss. } before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Joseph Applegate who being duly sworn according to Law, did depose and say that he was well acquainted with John Erwin an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832 at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, but did not see him the said John Erwin out in the Militia until the year 1700 when he saw him out in the service under the command of Colonel Robert Nixon he thinks in Captain Peter Perrines Company, at Springfield and Elizabeth Town, and at other times which he cannot now recollect, and the reason this deponent does not remember of other tours that the said Erwin was out in is that before the year 1777 this deponent enlisted in the year service under Captain Baalhis or some such a name who commanded a Troop of horse under Count Pulaski, and further saith not
Sworn, the day and year and subscribed in my presence and I do hereby certify that the witness who hath subscribed the above affidavit is a creditable person Robert McHenry Justice of the Peace
Joseph his S. Applegate mark

State of New Jersey Middlesex County Sp. B. Be it known that on this 27 th day of May 1833, Personally appeared before me John Smith one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County of Middlesex James Bodine who being duly sworn according to Law, did depose and say, that he is well acquainted with John Ervin and knew him before the Revolutionary war and remembers to have served with him in the United States Militia of New Jersey at Powles hook and Cranbury and Crosswicks in 1777 & at Trenton in 1778. at Springfield in 1780. Under different cap- tains - and he firmly believes that he served the said John Ervin in said War not less than five Months - and further saith not. - Sworn & Subscribed before me on the above date 31 James Bodine John Smith
And I do hereby certify that the above Subscription is a Creditable portion and entitled to full credit. John Smith

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Ervine, James GRADE Corporal LINE Crane's Continental Artillery (Massachusetts)
WARRANT NUMBER 4105 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 16, 1789 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.